ISSUE 22.39 • 2025-09-29 WINDOWS 11 By Chris Hoffman The classic Control Panel now feels like a home where the owner has mostly moved out but left some useful gadgets behind. Control Panel dates back to Windows 1.0 in 1985. Microsoft began trying to replace it with Windows 8’s PC Settings tool in 2012, but […]

WINDOWS By Mary Branscombe Graphics drivers remain one of the common sources of instability on Windows PCs. If your screen is glitching or flickering, if it doesn’t seem to turn on when your PC does, if the frame rate in games is unusually low, or if your mouse cursor seems to be freezing up, try […]

Yesterday, I purchased an upgrade from the 2024 edition of the Adobe Elements bundle — consisting of Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements, and Elements Organizer — to the 2025 edition. I’ve complained about this before because Adobe switched Elements from perpetual to subscription licensing; I said I would not pay for this misnamed “term” license. In […]